A Part D insurance which seems good one year may be too expensive the following year. These drug insurance price changes keep us on our toes!

Regarding Walgreens, after a retired judge friend advised getting the free Citizen’s App I observed that the Walgreens in my neighborhood has become a high crime area, so I usually avoid it.

Thanks for the suggestion to get RX by mail. Wish I could! Due to mail theft in my semi-rural area, I must use a secure locked mail box. Not all RX containers can slide in the mail slot, so they get tossed on the ground. I’ll never forget the time my car rolled over an expensive bottle of Lipitor. Crunch!

Check your increasing Part D charges, friends! It will probably save you hundreds of dollars by changing your Part D EVERY YEAR, which still have time to do until December 7.

Hi Eileen, Interested in your choice, as I just threw in my hat to Traditional Medicare, with G and D supplements. I saw the Silver Script Aetna listed at something like $1.61 /month premium compared to the AARP Walgreens United HC premium of $29 in my area. I took the Walgreens one, although I could not actually see the disadvantage of Silver Script in the price of drugs I MAY be (still no idea!) taking this next year. (I took the kind suggestions of forum folks and put in both the lowly HU and the exorbitant Pegasys.) I could not get my Medicare advisor to explain that discrepancy in premiums. Unless it is a privacy issue, can you say how Aetna's Silver Script let you down? I'm guessing your husband's meds were just not on the Aetna plan, or was it more a problem with the overall program?